Cigarettes have always been the first source to blame for lung disease; however, there’s a new sheriff in town... E-cigarettes. The ongoing national surge of electronic-cigarettes and vaping product...

Something about the fish oil industry is fishy, and it is not just the oil. Fish oil supplements have been a trusted staple in the medicine cabinets of many Americans since the late 1980s. In 2012,...

The youthful brain is a storm of activity. Information pours in through the senses while the brain builds fresh neurons to meet the need. But sometime within our first decade of life, the brain becomes...

“Money can’t buy happiness.” We’ve all heard this saying. What if you were told that prioritizing time, however, could in fact increase your overall satisfaction with life?...

A smile a day keeps the doctor away. No, you’re not reading that wrong. A 2019 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, by Lewina Lee and colleagues, shows that...

We have all seen pictures of the ocean filled with things of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Some of these pictures depict the marine life that we are so accustomed to seeing in nature, but, more recently,...

It may come as a surprise that humans are not the only species that have the ability to count; in fact frogs, spiders, and fish are just a few examples of animals that are capable of distinguishing between...

Over the last decade, research on the human microbiome has become increasingly prevalent. Researchers are understanding the importance of the microbes in our gastrointestinal tract and the role they play...

Imagine waking up and throwing your breakfast together in the kitchen. You sit down to eat only to find tiny pieces of plastic distributed among your meal. This is a reality for many marine creatures,...

Most people have heard of the incurable disease of the nervous system that causes stiffness and tremors, Parkinson’s disease. Not many people, however, would link this disease to the small, dysfunctional...

It may come as a surprise that humans are not the only species that have the ability to count; in fact frogs, spiders, and fish are just a few examples of animals that are capable of distinguishing between...

Over the last decade, research on the human microbiome has become increasingly prevalent. Researchers are understanding the importance of the microbes in our gastrointestinal tract and the role they play...